<p>Thanks, much appreciated :)</p><p>Best regards<br></p><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com">nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Since you're looking at making a gentoo-based sugar distro, you might<br>
find <a href="http://gitorious.org/projects/sugar-gentoo" target="_blank">http://gitorious.org/projects/sugar-gentoo</a> useful :)<br>
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On 2/3/09, Tiago Marques <<a href="mailto:tiagomnm@gmail.com">tiagomnm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Wade Brainerd <<a href="mailto:wadetb@gmail.com">wadetb@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> 2009/2/2 Tiago Marques <<a href="mailto:tiagomnm@gmail.com">tiagomnm@gmail.com</a>><br>
>><br>
>>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Mitch Bradley <<a href="mailto:wmb@laptop.org">wmb@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> Guess what? The people at OLPC, who aren't stupid, already considered<br>
>>>> every point in the message cited below, a long time ago. So why aren't<br>
>>>> we doing them? ...* *On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Carlos Nazareno<br>
>>>> <<a href="mailto:object404@gmail.com">object404@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Nobody's saying anyone is stupid. It is perfectly natural for people to<br>
>>> complain about things they don't understand. I also wish I could, from<br>
>>> time<br>
>>> to time, to ask this or that, to understand many things I don't<br>
>>> comprehend,<br>
>>> to know what I can do to help. This without getting into any kind of<br>
>>> fight<br>
>>> with the people involved with the project, who are the only ones who can<br>
>>> answer those questions.<br>
>>> As with any critical comment I may issue in this mailing list,* please<br>
>>> take it as something constructive*, to help (if it does, in any way) and<br>
>>> not to criticize the people who are hard at work. That, I think, is what<br>
>>> Carlos was trying to do.<br>
>>> I got my XO three weeks ago and there's a lot I was surprised to learn<br>
>>> that some of the more important features are WIP or simply don't work,<br>
>>> especially given the news that I've read, already detailing prototypes of<br>
>>> a<br>
>>> second version, when there's still a lot to do with the first one.<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>> Hey Tiago,<br>
>><br>
>> I've been following the project for about 2 years now and the software<br>
>> problems you cite (OOM crashing, flaky wireless, battery life, sluggish<br>
>> UI)<br>
>> are pretty much the same ones that existed back when I got involved! The<br>
>> lack of momentum on the software front has been pretty amazing given how<br>
>> much the project started with.<br>
>><br>
>> That said, things seem to be picking up speed as more control over the<br>
>> software is handed to the community. I finally feel like there's maybe a<br>
>> chance to see some of this stuff get resolved.<br>
>><br>
>> Here's hoping SL's XOOS or SoaS, or else some deployment's distribution<br>
>> will take better advantage of the excellent hardware that is the XO-1.<br>
>> I'd<br>
>> really like to see someone try to build a tiny LFS based XO specific<br>
>> distro<br>
>> which runs Sugar, and boots in <30sec :) I've got my personal XO booting<br>
>> in<br>
>> around 45sec just by hacking around in the initscripts, and I'm sure a lot<br>
>> better could be done.<br>
>><br>
> Hi Wade,<br>
> I use Gentoo for professional and personal use in almost all of my machines<br>
> and will probably install Gentoo in some binary way to dual boot the XO with<br>
> Sugar(it fits the XO too well, in some ways, to simply delete it). This will<br>
> be the most optimized code I can have the compiler generate, which should<br>
> yield some nice improvements, compiled with the smallest feature set needed.<br>
> I have a machine running KDE 3.5 in 80MB with two or three KDE apps loaded,<br>
> but that is still overkill for the XO. XFCE/Fluxbox would be something to<br>
> experiment with.<br>
> I have a server here in college to do a package server, with which other<br>
> users may use, but I still need some free time to finish the basic gentoo<br>
> based distro, which will hardly come with an installer, other than a "stage"<br>
> package compiled for the Geode.<br>
> I would like to see python less resource bound but I unfortunately have<br>
> neither the time nor the skill to go hacking it.<br>
> Best regards,<br>
> Tiago Marques<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> Best,<br>
>> -Wade<br>
>><br>
><br>
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